I walked around the outside of the mansion to observe the conditions of the yard and buildings, and after confirming that there was no problem, I took my cat into the interior through the hole in the fence. The courtyard has long lost sight of its former grandeur, and at this moment only a few traces of flower beds can be vaguely discerned.
Jenkins took the cat to the back of the house first, and after pushing all the fallen leaves on the ground to one side with his shoes, he could vaguely see the remaining traces of the ceremony on the flat ground.
The traces are not very old, it should have been used within a year. Because the remaining traces are very faint, it is difficult to discern the original use.
The main entrance of the mansion was blocked from the inside by skewed cabinets and long erected tables, and Jenkins could only enter through the side windows. The curtains are all gone, and almost all the furniture in the room has also disappeared. I don't know if it was a thief who broke in in which year.
There was a layer of dust on the ground, and Jenkins kicked up the dust with every step, making both him and Chocolate cough quietly.
I didn't go upstairs to check the situation, and directly followed the architectural diagram of the mansion I found from the town hall, and found the entrance to the basement behind the stairs.
The door to the basement was closed, and there were signs of attempted vandalism, but apparently no one succeeded. Jenkins tried to see if he could push it open, but after a few loud bangs, he didn't succeed. In the end, he thought that the door could only be opened with a destructive prop like a steam bomb.
So I opened the door with the [Key of the Door], and took the cat down the stairs to enter the ground. The airtightness of the underground is quite good, which leads to the thinning of oxygen.
Jenkins was worried that his cat would be deprived of oxygen, so he temporarily put it on the first floor and asked it to wait there and not move around. But when he entered the basement from the stairs, the cat followed him.
Thinking that the cat had bravely gone deep into the bottom of the lake and spent several minutes successfully dragging him and Miss Audrey to the surface in the big lake in the evergreen forest, Jenkins did not ask it to return again. Instead, explore the truth of this decaying house with Chocolate.
Unexpectedly, the first thing I saw in the basement was the brewing equipment. For nearly a hundred years, the three kingdoms have prohibited private brewing of wine, because of the need to ensure sufficient food reserves.
These devices probably explain why the last owner here made the basement door so strong.
But this has nothing to do with the purpose of Jenkins' coming here. He bypassed the machines lying quietly in the dark, and came to the southeast corner of the basement according to the information he saw in the church file.
The gap leading to the underground had long been blocked by the church, and nothing emerged from the ground in the three hundred years since then, so now there is no trace of the gap that once existed.
Jenkins can't do anything about it, he can only drop a few seeds, let them grow downward, and use the root system to detect whether there is still space directly under the house.
During this period, with the mentality of giving it a try, he and Chocolate searched for other clues in the basement where he used to make wine privately, but in the end he found nothing.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, the location of the underground space was finally confirmed. In order to open a way, Jenkins bombarded a big hole directly above it with the Holy Bone Sword.
After confirming that the "road" was extending downward in his hands, he jumped down with Chocolate.
This height is a bit exaggerated, which is roughly equivalent to jumping from the tip of the lightning rod on the roof of Jenkins' house into the yard. After touching the ground, he waited quietly in the dark for a while, and after confirming that there was no sudden attack, he raised the miner's lamp and looked around:
"Oh~"
He couldn't help sighing, the underground of the mansion was not the ancient mine tunnel he had expected, but a blacksmith workshop. The blast furnace extends upward from the ground, and it is not known how to deal with the combustion exhaust gas.
All kinds of obsidian workbenches are connected to the ground, as if the rock protruding from the ground is directly excavated and transformed.
It was here that the Orthodox Church discovered the mechanical monster. After defeating it, it confiscated the remaining body of the monster and brought most of the movable items back to Nolan for storage.
Now there are only some ores, wood, and a large workbench of unknown use left here. Fortunately, the underground is dry and not ventilated, and the wood is not damp.
Jenkins threw some wood into the blast furnace and lit it without adding coal, all he needed was light.
As soon as the wood-burning fire in the hearth appeared, the flames, like flowing water, followed the pipes extending outward from the hearth, and directly ignited the small lamps hidden on the wall. There is compressed carbon powder embedded in a metal shell in the shape of a ball inside the lamp. Under unknown technical processing, it can burn slowly when encountering sparks to provide light. The light is weaker than the minimum lighting level of a gas lamp, but because the lamps are very dense , so the lighting conditions are fairly good. .
As the lamps were turned on one by one, the full view of the underground workshop was revealed to Jenkins and his cat.
One person and one cat looked around, surprised at the size of a football field and all kinds of complicated stone forging equipment. Touching those devices, even though they didn't know the purpose, [Mechanist] still reminded Jenkins that it was definitely related to the casting of metal and the production of machinery.
The Eye of Reality scanned the surroundings and found an abnormal spiritual light in the area of the workshop near the blast furnace. When he approached, he found that it was a life-sized male human bust statue, made of metal, with no clothes on the upper body, and the lower body was deliberately processed into uneven stone, presumably to make the metal statue look like a stone sculpture.
The church did not take this thing away because the statue, like those workbenches, was directly connected to the ground. Jenkins tried to touch the statue with his hands and gave it a pat.
With a very slight buzzing sound, he saw the structure inside the statue completely. So he took a step back with his cat, and watched the expressions appear on the frozen face of the statue, and the hands that kept drooping movements also moved a little bit:
"I… "
The common language is used, and the voice and appearance are consistent.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Williamette."
"Meow~"
Hearing the statue call out Jenkins' name, Chocolate "growled" at it to defend Jenkins. Jenkins raised his hand to comfort his well-behaved cat:
"you know me?"
He is ready to fight.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"wait for me?"
"Yes, I have been waiting for a long time for the prophesied Rui Danput, the legendary World Tree sacrifice descendants, and... the doomed disaster. You came too late."